On 12/30/2010 11:20 AM, Sheng Yang wrote:
On Thursday 30 December 2010 17:14:23 Avi Kivity wrote:
>  On 12/30/2010 11:05 AM, Sheng Yang wrote:
>  >  >   >         if (!(cr0&    X86_CR0_PG)) {
>  >  >   >         
>  >  >   >                 /* From paging/starting to nonpaging */
>  >  >   >                 vmcs_write32(CPU_BASED_VM_EXEC_CONTROL,
>  >  >   >
>  >  >   >   @@ -1937,11 +1936,8 @@ static void
>  >  >   >   ept_update_paging_mode_cr0(unsigned long *hw_cr0,
>  >  >   >
>  >  >   >                         vmcs_read32(CPU_BASED_VM_EXEC_CONTROL)&
>  >  >   >                         
>  >  >   >                         ~(CPU_BASED_CR3_LOAD_EXITING |
>  >  >   >                         
>  >  >   >                         CPU_BASED_CR3_STORE_EXITING));
>  >  >   >
>  >  >   >   -             /* Must fetch cr3 before updating cr0 */
>  >  >   >   -             cr3 = kvm_read_cr3(vcpu);
>  >  >   >
>  >  >   >                 vcpu->arch.cr0 = cr0;
>  >  >   >                 vmx_set_cr4(vcpu, kvm_read_cr4(vcpu));
>  >  >   >
>  >  >   >   -             vmx_set_cr3(vcpu, cr3);
>  >  >
>  >  >   This is indeed bogus.  But what ensures that we'll have the correct
>  >  >   GUEST_CR3 after enabling paging?
>  >
>  >  In fact I don't understand why we need this line. All modification is for
>  >  CR3 reading, why we need to set hardware CR3 again? It should be the
>  >  same as when we don't have CR3 accessor I think.
>
>  when cr0.pg=0 then we set GUEST_CR3=identity_pagetable.  We don't want
>  that when we we switch to paging mode.

I think kvm_mmu_reset_context() in kvm_set_cr0() should cover this?


I looked at it but missed it. kvm_mmu_reset_context() doesn't actually do this, but it does schedule a kvm_mmu_load() which will call vmx_set_cr3().

Thanks, I'll apply your v2 now.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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